, 1887-04-07
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
PEN PICTURE OF CHARLEY FAR
WELL, TIE ILLINOIS SENATOR.
Talks about John Sherman - Personal
Magnetism in PoIitiCs-Delegate Caine
Chats of brigham Young and PoIysGmy.
Cleveland and Dan Lamont.
ISpeciaI CnrrespondeEce1
Special CorresPondeEce.l

WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
l took a good look at Charley Farwell, the
ne9y senator from Illinois. as he sat in the SEN
ate chamber yesterday. He is on the back row,
and THOUGH he weighs 2GOpounds he is the baby
senator of the chamber. lie IS tail, straight
AMI Gi1uisai He would measure six feet in
his str-Sin-s. AMI suppose his thigh Is as
iar.sc around rs Mahones waist. He has ono
OF iha biggest heads in the senate, and this
.i.S firmly upon a pair OF broad shoulders,
attached thereto by n strong, well shaped
neck. His face Is strikinEiy like that of
GarfsII. The forehead is high, broad and
full over the eyes. The nose is straight and IN
.i:g,,l to the sensitive, the cheek bones are
3.irh. and the Jaws. which l imagine to be
s!rua.. ones, are hidden by full, short, wEitish
GRAY ygi,i-l.l- Il is the face OF man of
character, and as you look at it you see that
it, owner has the physique to carry his ideas
into action. The eyes OF this Illinois states
man are blue. They are honest and hugh
in.. and they carry out the idea that the soul
reLiuI tnsrr i fun of good fellowship. Sen
atar FIrweH dresses in business clothes, and.
while not a sloyen, there is nothing of the
dude abous him. He is n plain, common
seUse low, full OF vitality and wearing his
"a gr.tIS rs easily as though lie had been horn
q, generation later. Charley Farweil IS one
Of tic rich man o. the senate. He has made
4 fortune in dry goods, hut while he
has been making money he has found
time for other things rs well He has been
laree times elected 70 congress and has been
IL sheriff of Cook county. He went to
Chicago fortv-Jwo years ago, and some Of his
first work was surveying. The first WAGES
!a received was IN the county clerks Office
aud lac got the mUnifcent salary OF 81 a week.
rataf FarweIl has a splendid house at LcEe
F.~..t. I'i- He is noted for his generosity.
au.i H. viii not be surprising if be entertaius
i.gi=I'y here next year. He has q very
IL IL wife and two unmarried daughters.
On, of these, Miss Grace, has i;sJ been
graduated from a New England college and
She viii probably he introduced into Wash
iugton society next winter. The ather
daughter IS still at school at Lake Forest
university, near Chicago, and q third
daughter, who IS married, IS Mrs. De Co-eu,
the wife of a Chicago merchant prince Who
Is here with her father this winter.
49,
Mr. Cdppeller, the chairman Of the Ohio
Republican executive committee, and the
owner OF n newspaper Published at john
Sgsr!nau'S Ohio home, tells me- that Sherman
has never been SO strong in Ohio rs he IS now,
and That thCIe IS nothing in the statement
that Governor Foraker has any ambition to
have = place on the presidential ticket of 1888.
Governor Foraker saws CUppo!.cr. docs not
want 70 ia ag',ln candidate Tor governor &C
Ohio on account of the snaIluass OF the sal
ary lie told me tue other day that he could
mako from s3D, uJ1 TO $1,000 q wear at Lis
law practice in Cincinnati, and perhaps more
than that now that Governor HoadIy has
gone to New York. His position as governor
keeps him away from his family and lis ex-
penses amount TO more than his gubei1atoriaI
salury. Foraker Is Il strong friend Of Shar-
mans and he VIII he one OF Shcrmans sup
po'Iers ut the next convention
Speaking of Sherman's presidential out
look, l had chat yesterday with Tom
Nichol, who was one Of Shermau's managers
in lSSf. NichOl is one of the queeresJ chqr-
acters in American politics. He is ug'ier
than the man who stopped the clock by look
ing at it, but he is sharper than chain light
ming. He has red mustache, lean face
and pale blue eyes, but his tongue can utter
two ideas To the second, and his Wiry frame
is packed full of logical argument. He is an
Ohio man by BIRTH and during the GreenbacE
craze of some years ago he was q travelling
salesman for plOw house. While so en-
gagged he stopped one night at Racine, Wis,
and attended Greenbacl meeting there. In
the milst of utterances of financial heresies
he tried to make speech. The Green
hackers, when ttey heard that he was n
hard money man, refused to let him talk, and
he deiianly told tham that he would hire a
hall himself and wolIld speak to the town the
next night. He did this, and he had q crowded
audience. His speech was su Ia a success that
it came to the ears Of the Republican
managers and they employed I'm
to 90 through the northwest making
SPEECHES. He organized the hard money
leaEtIe of the northwest, anI has been since
then a noted taiker upon the finances of the
country. He Is, l JUICE, about 40 years of
age, is well posted on the Bible, and is noted
for his accuracy of statement. He has n
mathematical brain, and fi-ures stick to Linn
closer than bUrTS do to wool. He has been
travelling throughout the western states, and
it was III the clerks Ofii e Of the United States
senate that l met him Yesterday He said:
u want to denOunce the supposed effect of
personal magnetism as q presidential ouan-
tity. American politics have changed of late
years, ami n.huSiasm does not bring votes.
The American people are doing their Yotin.
now more Ey reasoning than by cheering,
and magnetism is PLAYED out. In Issi tie
Republican party went VIII for it. They
chose 5agn-s G. Blaine and John A. Lo-an as
their candidates. These were the princes Of
personal magnetism and the crown princes
OF enthusiasm. AGAINST them the Democrats
put up Grover Cleveland, thicl-skinned
Buffalo lawyer, with not enough magnetism
iu him 10 run the ball button OF a hotel
chaniler, ani a cold blooded old man
from Indiana
Yet these two men beat your crown princes
Of enthusiasm. Go back a little, In Iss6
the Democrats nominated al Old man
who was trembling over the grave, which has
since come to him. They added to Inn the
Indiana statesman OF I5>4. Neither CT them
had personal magnetism nor any OF the eIs-
rlents which inspire an enthusiastic follow
ing. The Republicans, in opposition, noni-
mated Hayes Gnl NLecler, neither Of whom